Yahya

What Yahya means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Yahya yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #81 vs #615 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Yahya?

US: Rising: up from #977 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #209 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 455 boys got the name (#615 that year). First in the US records in 1972.

How common

• About 1 in 3,754 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 435 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 727 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MN (1.22 per 1,000 boys), IL (0.83 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.72 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Yahya is #615 in the US and #81 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Yahya were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Yahye9 US
• Yehya6 US
• Yahyaa0 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Yahya

Boys

• Yusuf#449Same root as Joseph, meaning “(God) shall add”^*
• Isa#929Diminutive of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Ibrahim#351Editor’s note Up from #436 in 2015 to #351 in 2025 in the US
• Rayan#588Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #178 vs #588 in 2025
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Musa#469Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #64 vs #469 in 2025

For a sister

• Maryam#351Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #52 vs #351 in 2025
• Zahra#538Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1973, with 8 babies
• Amira#132“princess”^*
• Zara#212“flower”^*
• Amirah#490Variant of Amira, meaning “princess”^*
• Leyla#611Editor’s note Up from #782 in 2015 to #611 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Arabic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Yahya’s. Rank is US 2025.